Zuckerberg's yacht is registered to the Marshall Islands and is, therefore, party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Article 98 covers "Duty to render assistance". www.un.org/depts/los/co... 1/

Michael Love@elkmovie.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)

Tr*mp has now spent almost $4B of our money on payouts like this, just to accelerate the climate crisis and make clean energy more expensive. He is literally paying companies to make things worse. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/c...

Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases

It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.

nytimes.com

The Seth Moulton campaign just admitted to Politifact that their Epstein accusation against Markey is false. The most desperate and dishonest political campaign I have ever seen.

your terms are acceptable

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 16h ago

Trump on El-Sayed: "If he succeeds, the Dumocrats will gain 4 Senators, 8 Congressmen, many Electoral and Popular Votes, a stacked Supreme Court with 23 Justices, and I will be, sadly, despite the great job we are doing, the last Republican President!"

Um. *checks notes* 🙋‍♀️ I have questions.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 20h ago

Thom Tillis claims Trump "has a right to be angry" at Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton "for prosecuting him" 🥴

if the moderate wing of the Dem party would spend even half of the energy they are spending fighting the DSA on fighting Trump they wouldn't be losing so many primaries to the DSA

Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 21h ago

"We are preparing for the next war that is coming": Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan and the rise of DSA candidates in multiple states have Democrats at odds with each other over the identity and future of the party. @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

Dems in Array

KingFitch Channel 1🤴🏿🏀💙🗽🌁🇺🇸🦺@kingfitch1990.bsky.social · 2d ago

Vice President Kamala Harris endorses Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in Michigan. “This was a hard-fought Democratic primary, and Michiganders were lucky to have such inspiring leaders step up in this moment.”

Woooooow... a 🧵👇. I mean, we know he's an abuser, every red flag is flying high just from his own words, but...now, receipts.

Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: Regarding the claims that Rep. Max Miller withheld his toddler's "blue bunny," I have some new screenshots suggesting there was a pattern of Miller not giving the bunny back. There were pleas from multiple people on multiple dates. (Thread: 1/8)

Will co-founded @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social. The climate polluters Koch Industries, Marathon Petroleum, Valero, Phillips 66, Williams Cos., CMS Energy, DTE Energy, Fluor Corp., BNSF Railway, Union Pacific, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are contributing to his opponent Rep. Tom Barrett (R). #MI07

William Lawrence (@wewill2026.bsky.social) is calling for a federal moratorium on data centers. Anthropic, Oracle, and Google are contributing to his opponent, Rep. Tom Barrett (R). #MI07

Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last yr.

While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle. https://trib.al/ayccoO7

New from me: More than a trillion dollars flow through the federal government in grants. We have more and more evidence that the Trump administration has been directing those grants on purely partisan grounds, denying them to blue states. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

Governing without Accountability

Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America

donmoynihan.substack.com

And they need to do it while saving Social Security. Frankly, the fastest way to do this is let all tax cuts expire in last year's tax cut and repeal all the ones that don't expire in it, plus all the tax cuts for the wealthy.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 24h ago

Nobody wants to hear it, but the next Democratic president is going to have to do some nut cuttin’ on the national debt (Republicans never do anything to pay down the debt when they control office). It will be painful. It will piss people off. But it will be necessary.

Kash Patel, who received money from both Russia (the propaganda film) and CHina (Shein) before becoming FBI Director, is running LE exchanges with both. This is what Mike Flynn (who received $$ from RU) had in mind before he was fired for hiding his ties to RU. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

EXCLUSIVE: Under Patel, FBI forges unprecedented law enforcement ties with China, Russia

FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia, two longtime U.S. rivals, over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational cr...

reuters.com

THREAD 🧵🧵🧵🧵 Two of the main lies in the Cass Review used to justify the puberty-blocker ban; 1. The lie that puberty-blockers have a long-term negative effect on bone density. 2. The lie that puberty-blockers have a negative effect on cognitive ability. Both have been shown to be false; 1/4

Over on Xitter, Scott Bessent is throwing a temper tantrum that WSJ (which will probably defeat Trump's nuisance lawsuit this week) reported on his currency trading. Here's what Bloomberg thinks of Bessent (and Warsh's) whining. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

"Election officials and lawyers noted how surreal it is, even after a decade of Trumpism, to treat the nation’s duly elected president as the primary threat to the freedom and fairness of American elections." Yes. Always keep this front and center.

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · yesterday

disturbing the level of resources & time that election officials, elected Dems, & others across the U.S. are devoting to preparing for if Trump tries to sic ICE, troops, or armed feds on their polling sites @justinglawe.bsky.social & I take you behind the scenes on how: zeteo.com/p/inside-dem...

"Yet plenty on the left will condemn Trump’s authoritarianism while retaining a morally ludicrous infatuation with figures like Lenin and Mao." I remember being part of progressive activist groups in the 2000s, some had an obsession with Chávez. The media passed around was heavy with propaganda...😒

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · yesterday

“People have turned idol worship of political figures and online personalities into something like a comfort blanket—clinging to them in reverential, memeified, and childlike ways that more resemble how someone might talk about the characters on their favorite TV show.”

We live in the dumbest—WITH a B—timeline.

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · yesterday

Handsome Kevin is... still handsome. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer.

Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.

abc.net.au

This paragraph here I think is a very important point!!

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · yesterday

"There’s no question El-Sayed can win. He only has to win somewhere a little north of 80 percent of people who disapprove of Trump." On the pod, Ron Brownstein explains brilliantly how AES wins and why it's also very hard. A serious dose of realism here. Don't miss: newrepublic.com/article/2140...

as if millions of statisticians suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "An outlier is a person that doesn't have a chance" (That's not what 'outlier' means)

Imagine a fellow draft dodger like Bill Clinton, posting an image of him in uniform, wearing more medals than Patton or MacArthur. Fox News would’ve spontaneously combusted

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2d ago

This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.

Is he demanding that they be literally covered in gold?

Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · 2d ago

I hope you're sitting down.

Oh please, by all means. We'll toss some Grade D But Edible steak over the wall from time to time and you can Hunger Games that shit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Tuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."

It’s a Klan Rally. These people only have to hear a name that their lizard brains process as sounding Arabic and hate immediately pours out.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

LOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently

It's a really big deal that @cookpolitical.com has shifted #KSSEN from Solid R to Likely R @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social needs Bluesky follows!! And votes!

stevens doing this right away in a gracious way is good and shows she understands that it's all one team, and everyone else in the establishment is also getting on board we are going to win this race in november

VoteHub@votehub.com · 2d ago

NEWS — Haley Stevens has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan U.S. Senate race against Republican Mike Rogers.

"some specific democrats suck" I live in Massachusetts, can confirm. In fact a lot of the worst ones who suck hail from my city...some of whom end up with ethics violations or jail time! But still. Wouldn't give up the state legislature majority we have for nuttin'.

Micah@rincewind.run · 2d ago

some specific democrats suck and they suck in ways that are detrimental to issues that you personally care about you know how you solve that once we are past the primaries? you elect even more democrats so that their votes are less important joe manchin couldn’t have done as much damage as vote 52

"In Michigan, where every single district had at least one factory announced, the swing we identified was larger than Trump’s entire margin of victory. Without the manufacturing build-out, our estimates suggest, Harris would have lost that state by three times as much as she did." Interesting!

James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social · 2d ago

"The conventional wisdom today is that Biden’s bet [on the IRA] was a bust....Every part of that story, however, is at best incomplete and at worst simply wrong. The law did, in fact, deliver votes for Democrats. And key components of it are still on the books." – @leahstokes.bsky.social